Technology is Opening Minds with a NEW Set of Keys

iMovie is an amazing tool that many
do not take advance of using.

Glen Weibe, (https://twitter.com/glennw98) former
Kansas History teacher and now doing professional development full time through the educational service
center, ESSDACK.
Glen’s blog, History
tech, is full of great resources each day, but today, his post is full of good ideas for using
iMovie. I think you will find it inspirational and maybe give you an idea for using iMovie in your course. I have also included a resource for
learning to use iMovie. Our students learn iMovie in DED 318.

Teaching with Movies: 20 tools for integration

by glenn weibe on February 18, 2015

Four times a year, I get the opportunity to work with 25-30 classroom teachers as part of an ongoing professional learning community. We chat about all sorts of things. Video games. Primary sources. Technology integration. Literacy standards.

Today, we spent the morning chatting with Don Gifford, KSDE social studies guru, about the upcoming state assessment and sharing strategies for encouraging discipline-specific writing skills. Evidence-based
terms. Writing
prompts. Good stuff.

The afternoon?

Movies.

We started by spliting up into two imaginary groups – parents and teachers. Each researched the following question:

Should movies be part of the instructional practice in a social studies classroom? (any classroom)

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Posthaven, new tool, that allows me to post right from my email and more.

So this is my first attempt to post via email. Fingers crossed it works!!

You can connect to your Twitter, Facebook & LinkedIn for autoposts. The only downside is that it is $5 a month. But when you read their PLEDGE, it makes sense and totally a bargain. I encourage you to check into PostHaven

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There is a wealth of great content on YouTube, but streaming live in school environments is problematic much of the time. So here is a work around, of course there are may, many ways to do this, but this is my personal favorite and it is easy and actually works. Feel free to use and share the attached PDF instructions.

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Guy Trainin, University of Nebraska has been creating a series of Podcasts, 150 episodes so far. One each week and only about 5 minutes in length.

Here is the link to the Tech Edge: iPads in the Classroom YouTube channel to find all the episodes. The most recent is about using Padlet in the Classroom. There is much to learned in only 5 minutes each week, I encourage you to check them out and subscribe. Also available in iTunes.

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Cyndi Danner-Kuhn

I am a faculty member and the Education Technology Integration Coordinator for the Kansas State University College of Education. I am an educational futurist who works to leverage technology for the benefit of learners. I am an educator, digital storyteller, blogger and digital change agent, artist and friend.
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